Hyper-V Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Microsoft Hyper-V
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 59 76
Rank change year-on-year -18 +17 +13
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 5 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.39% 0.18% 0.38%
As % of the System Software category 5.21% 1.54% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £338 - £530
25th Percentile £450 £569 £542
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +2.17% -5.35%
75th Percentile £553 £606 £593
90th Percentile £581 - £597
South West median daily rate £525 £606 £521
% change year-on-year -13.40% +16.31% +15.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £26.00 - -

All System Software Skills
Bristol

Hyper-V falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 96 65 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 7.46% 11.38% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 47 74
10th Percentile £261 £192 £240
25th Percentile £413 £224 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -16.19% +23.53%
75th Percentile £578 £563 £597
90th Percentile £614 £625 £714
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 2 18
10th Percentile £13.65 £78.83 £66.11
25th Percentile £19.64 £79.03 £69.09
Median hourly rate £65.00 £79.35 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% -0.81% +23.08%
75th Percentile £66.69 £79.68 £90.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.87 -
South West median hourly rate £60.33 £48.48 £68.75
% change year-on-year +24.46% -29.49% +14.58%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hyper-V relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in Bristol

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Hyper-V.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in Bristol over the 6 months to 25 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in Bristol

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Hyper-V.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) Calico
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (20.00%) Electronics
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
1 2 (40.00%) Tech Ops
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) SBOM
2 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) CCSK
3 1 (20.00%) CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CISM
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (20.00%) Docker
3 1 (20.00%) KVM
3 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Istio
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp
2 1 (20.00%) SAP